Receding hairline

Nature Boy wrote:

Shhh wrote:

Did none of you read what I wrote?

Those meds cause side effects in some people, yes. I'm one of those people while most of my friends are not.

REDUCE THE DOSAGE. Its not AS effective but it's still a LOT better than nothing at all. I'm doing really well on them now.

As for those natural remedies, if your hairloss is caused by male pattern baldness, they will 100% NOT work. Sorry, but it's true. Read into it.

The natural approach does work. Have you ever tried it? That's what I thought. You're a lazy shit like the rest who want to solve everything with a pill. There is no such thing as MPB. Some men may indeed have a propensity towards baldness, but it can be averted with good nutrition, clean hair products, and stimulation of the scalp.

I agree. The internet is full of screaming hypochondriacs. The problem is, how can you distinguish side effects of Propecia from a natural impotence of such a whining loser?

Nature Boy wrote:

Shhh wrote:

Did none of you read what I wrote?

Those meds cause side effects in some people, yes. I'm one of those people while most of my friends are not.

REDUCE THE DOSAGE. Its not AS effective but it's still a LOT better than nothing at all. I'm doing really well on them now.

As for those natural remedies, if your hairloss is caused by male pattern baldness, they will 100% NOT work. Sorry, but it's true. Read into it.

The natural approach does work. Have you ever tried it? That's what I thought. You're a lazy shit like the rest who want to solve everything with a pill. There is no such thing as MPB. Some men may indeed have a propensity towards baldness, but it can be averted with good nutrition, clean hair products, and stimulation of the scalp.

Sure, you wholeheartedly recommend it, but you yourself don't suffer from MPB?

help my hair wrote:

So here's the deal. I'm in my late 20's, and have noticed my hairline has started receding. And it's hapenning pretty quickly. Anyways, I keep my hair really short, so it doesn't look too bad, but I miss having longer hair, and also don't want to lose it all anyways.

Anyone have experience with any hair loss treatments (Rogaine, Procepia, anything else) that they can share? What worked for you, what didn't, how did you deal with balding, that type of stuff?

Man, with the current arsenal of treatments, it is harder to lose hair than not to lose hair. O.K., some guys may be unfortunate, but they make up only a small portion of the population. (Even after 10 years, Propecia shows continuing efficiacy in 86% patients!) And even they have a chance to succeed, although they must use the "heaviest guns" like dutasteride or RU.

If you value your hair, start with generic finasteride (1 mg/day) and 5% minoxidil. There is a 90+% chance that you will keep your hair for decades. I myself will close my second successful decade on minoxidil within several years.

And my last advice: Don't visit internet hairloss forums and don't listen to the whining wackoos that cumulate there. They are not a representative sample of users. You will only be depressed, misinformed by mystifications and discouraged from potentially effective medications.

Just thought I'd share my experience with propecia, since I'm a runner and actually perused the threads on here about propecia before giving it a try.

Background - I first noticed my hairline receding ever so slightly at 25, but it was never enough to bother me, not really even noticeable. Around 30, i grew my hair out to shoulder length, and i have to say, it looked f'ing awesome. I was getting random girls on the street or working at coffee shops, etc, telling me i was handsome.

Then the bomb dropped. One day at home, my gf told me i was thinning around the crown. Mortified at the potential of losing my locks, i researched what i could do. The only things that seemed not to be snake oil and had actual proof of effectiveness were propecia and rogaine. I immeduately started rogaine and went to the doc for a propecia prescription. He assured me it was safe and if i hadn't already had problems downstairs i should be fine. When i got home, i googled it just to be sure, and i find all the horror stories that you find when you google 'propecia side effects'. I decided to stick with the rogaine for the time being, and it did work to thicken up my crown, so i didn't worry about it.

About a year later, however, i started to shed like crazy, so i bit the bullet and started propecia. I was cautious, only taking half a dose 3x per week. After a week, i was happy - no side effects sexually or in the gym, so i was thinking i could stay on it indefinitely and keep my hair. After about 3 weeks, however, i was with my girlfriend and i felt like my penis had been shot up with anaesthetic. I could still have an erection, but i felt nothing. I immediately stopped taking it, but this went on for about 2 terrifying weeks. Finally, after about a month it cleared up.

Anyway, my point is that it is not a completely harmless drug,. I really understand the desire to want to hang on to your hair, but be very careful - you are playing with a very potent hormone and.no one knows all the things.this can do over the long term.

Do not take propecia under any circumstances... you may very likely experience sexual/feminizing side effects that take a very long time to go away if they go away at all. Definitely not worth it.

I took it for 5 years... about 3 years in wang stopped working. Plus brain fog and some depression. Now 3 years after quitting wang is 85 percent back to normal.

Now I just buzz my hair very short with no guard and got on with life. Nobody cares about your hair loss except yourself.

I know this one because i've had to work with hair transplant docs. DON'T use rogaine! It will make your hair grow but it also makes you lose hair and then grow back all fuzzy. Propecia is good.

Just keep it cut short. You have a handsome face and your head isn't shaped like a penis so you're good. Girls honestly don't care so much.